I stopped Saturday morning on Race Street to photograph the male Red-tailed Hawk, who seemed to be gliding around playfully in the gusty wind. It wasn’t long, though, before I heard a familiar call: the male American Kestrel, dive-bombing the hawk.

It was the first I’d seen of the kestrels in some time. Last winter I saw the female even in January; this winter, I didn’t see either of them at all.

The pair was active yesterday and this morning, though, both at the nest and in the blocks that surround it. They appeared to copulate this morning, too — last year, I noted that behavior on March 24.

Below, a small gallery of images of them from this weekend (click to enlarge).